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Data are from the US FARS (Fatality Analysis Recording System) archive that is intended to include every accident in which there was at least one fatality. Data are limited to vehicles where the front seat passenger seat was occupied.
FARS
A data frame with 153338 observations on the following 17 variables.
caseid
a character vector: identifies the vehicle
state
a numeric vector. See the FARS website for details
age
a numeric vector; 998=not reported; 999=not known
airbag
a numeric vector
injury
a numeric vector
restraint
a numeric vector
sex
1=male, 2=female, 9=unknown
inimpact
a numeric vector
modelyr
a numeric vector
airbagAvail
a factor with levels no
yes
NA-code
airbagDeploy
a factor with levels no
yes
NA-code
Restraint
a factor with levels no
yes
NA-code
D_injury
a numeric vector
D_airbagAvail
a factor with levels no
yes
NA-code
D_airbagDeploy
a factor with levels no
yes
NA-code
D_Restraint
a factor with levels no
yes
NA-code
year
year of accident
Data is for automabiles where the right passenger seat was occupied, with one observation for each such passenger. Observations for vehicles where the most harmful event was a fire or explosion or immersion or gas inhalation, or where someone fell or jumped from the vehicle, are omitted. Data are limited to vehicle body types 1 to 19,48,49,61, or 62. This excludes large trucks, pickup trucks, vans and buses. The 2009 and 2010 data does not include information on whether airbags were installed.
The papers given as references demonstrate the use of Fatal Accident Recording System data to assess the effectiveness of airbags (even differences between different types of airbags) and seatbelts. Useful results can be obtained by matching driver mortality, with and without airabgs, to mortality rates for right front seat passengers in cars without passenger airbags.
http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx
http://maths-people.anu.edu.au/~johnm/nzsr/taws.html
Olson CM, Cummings P, Rivara FP. 2006. Association of first- and second-generation air bags with front occupant death in car crashes: a matched cohort study. Am J Epidemiol 164:161-169
Cummings, P; McKnight, B, 2010. Accounting for vehicle, crash, and occupant characteristics in traffic crash studies. Injury Prevention 16: 363-366
Braver, ER; Shardell, M; Teoh, ER, 2010. How have changes in air bag designs affected frontal crash mortality? Ann Epidemiol 20:499-510.
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